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Kash Patel is seriously infuriating FBI officials

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Kash Patel Is Seriously Infuriating FBI Officials

Summary

FBI Director Kash Patel, appointed by Donald Trump despite lacking law enforcement experience, has frustrated current and former FBI and DOJ officials with what they see as a lack of seriousness and professionalism.

Patel skipped or scaled back key briefings and ended routine field office meetings, citing leaks.

Critics cite a leadership void, public relations stunts, and excessive travel including multiple trips unrelated to work.

Patel also briefly led the ATF but was quietly replaced after being absent.

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He's also seriously infuriating certain congress people who... would really love him to do his fucking job and get the budget request in.
- Here is what is odd.
  Kash doesn't do the budget. It's not like the director of anything is running the numbers.
  He approves stuff. So I am at a loss to understand how he can fuck it up so badly and at such a basic level. Even if he is partying all day and all night, if he doesn't give two shits, shouldn't he rubber stamp shit?
  It's beyond bizarre.
  
  It may be intentional.
  They seem to be pushing back against any congressional and judicial oversight. They are probably trying to make it so the executive branch doesn’t have to answer for anything including how the FBI uses money.
  It certainly looks like they’re doing a soft setup for autocracy.
  
  Five bucks says he was told to wait for a budget to be provided from the DOGE.
  
  He approves stuff. So I am at a loss to understand how he can fuck it up so badly and at such a basic level. Even if he is partying all day and all night, if he doesn’t give two shits, shouldn’t he rubber stamp shit?
  the budget request is probably collecting dust in his in-box while he's multiplexing online poker tables. or raid shadow legends. he looks like the kind of guy that plays raid.
  
  He wrote a book describing how, among other Unitary executive theory-friendly proposals, he would dismantle and reform the FBI into a Trump-supporting organization. See Government Gangsters (2023).
  
  It is intential. This is exactly the monkey wrench that Trump wanted to throw into the FBI, while he ramps up funding for ICE, who are more loyal to him.
Scully and Mulder would not put up with this shit.
- A beautiful word that is exactly what people think it is.
  
  I'd prefer a khakistocracy.
He was put in that position to kill the FBI, the notoriously right wing institution has been engineering its own destruction and now the bill is due… they loved sewing, guess they’re not looking forward to the reaping
- sowing? I was confused there for a second. The mental image of a reaper taking away someone's quilt was funny though.
I would hope people who spend or spent their career at the J. Edgar Hoover Building take the values of seriousness and professionalism seriously.
For the record, I’m not saying junior level agents or specialists or whatever get a choice of what DC building they work in. But people with influence need to change the fucking name of the building. Even in this divisive age, I’d like to think we can come together to say J. Edgar Hoover was a piece of actual shit.
So basically he's doing the job exactly as his boss wants
His left eye infuriates me whenever his right eye doesn't
Gee whiz, it would be a shame if a lot of trained investigators decided to do a little off the books research into what Putin has on Donnie. A real shame...
- What would that matter at this point?
  They'd need to do something more.
- Hard to so that without a budget. And thats exactly why Kash is doing this.
The FBI spied on trump as well as got caught lying about the Biden laptop scandal to help Biden win the 2020 campaign so... Would it be surprising if he directed Patel to fuck with the FBI on purpose?
- That first article is disingenuous MSM propaganda; claiming the investigations of Trump staff were similar to the Red Scare is disgusting. I'm not defending the FBI's crimes, but investigating suspects much longer than the evidence should allow is completely different to destroying the lives of thousands of people associated with suspected leftists. The situations are not even remotely equivalent.
  And that second articles MAGA mental illness is made clear in the first few sentences.
  Find better sources. Stop injecting cult propaganda into your veins.
  
  The second article is garbage hiding behind MSNBC.
  https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/western-journalism/
- Lol, yes -- Let's hear from a conservative opinion piece and also the founder of Citizens United's pet propaganda project to make our point about a factual event. I do appreciate the citing though, please keep doing that just with real sources.
- Its obvious that this is intentional, yes.
  Trump prefers the ICE gustapo over the FBI. He's having Kash destroy them.
- Lmao The Western Journal (who wrote your second article) is an ultracon propaganda mill. It’s no better than a tabloid rag.

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